The Chronicle Review It’s Time for a National Digital-Library System But it can’t serve only elites By David H. Rothman February 24, 2011 ...

WATCH ABOVE: Ontario’s libraries are asking the government to create a province-wide digital public library to ensure residents in smaller municipalities have the same access to materials as ...

Libraries are mostly funded by municipalities, so each library system has to purchase their own material, said Dina Stevens, executive director of the Federation of Ontario Public Libraries.

The nation’s first all-digital, book-free public library system has opened in San Antonio, with patrons lining up to peruse on online catalog on Apple touch screen computers and check out books ...

Instead of having 75 public libraries in say, a local library system (such the BCCLS that my wife and I enjoy in Bergen County, New Jersey, one of the most populous counties in the United States ...

We support it with our taxes. Libraries and copyright have a long and uneasy relationship. In 1870, Congress centralized the copyright system inside the LOC.

But there is another side to public libraries in America: they are dynamic, versatile community centers. They welcomed more than 1.59 billion visitors in 2009 and lent books 2.4 billion times ...

The Digital Public Library of America announced today that it has received a $990,195 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to build upon its network of library professionals and ...

Starting August 25, the Emporia Public Library (EPL) will switch over to Aspen Discovery, a new software catalog, for all ...

When Google began scanning library collections for its Books project, Harvard University was one of the first partners. Since then, its library system’s director, Robert ­Darnton, has become a ...

(Rebecca Zandbergen/CBC News) The London Public Library is still working around the clock to restore a system outage after being hit by a cyberattack on the morning of Dec. 13.

Retrieval support functions of the Electronic Library System Bibliographic data retrieval Bibliographic data retrieval is a well-known function that is provided by existing library catalog systems and ...